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CONTENTS
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Introduction: notes on Italy in recent decades and the Handbook
PART I Old and new tensions in contemporary Italian society
1 The ‘Southern Question’ … again
2 Fratelli d’Italia: differences and similarities in social values between Italian macro-regions
3 From manpower to brain drain? Emigration and the Italian state, between past and present
4 Racism, immigration and new identities in Italy
5 Role and perceptions of women in contemporary Italy
6 New generation at a crossroads: decline or change? Young people in Italy and their transformation since the nineties
7 Mafias, Italy and beyond
PART II Democratic life and institutions
8 Institutions and the political system in Italy: a story of failure
9 The missing renewal of the ruling class
10 Media and democracy
11 No longer pro-European? Politicisation and contestation of Europe in Italy
12 Religion and the state
PART III Politics
13 Genius loci: the geography of Italian politics
14 The political right
15 From communism to centre-left: analysis of an unprecedented political trajectory
16 From the Democrazia Cristiana to the archipelago of Catholic and centrist parties
17 The fluctuating fortunes of the Lega Nord
18 Magistrates going into politics: Antonio Di Pietro and Italy of Values
19 Social movement campaigns from global justice activism to Movimento Cinque Stelle
PART IV Italian welfare and economy
20 Welfare, Italian style: from Bismarckian beginnings to crisis and reform
21 Clientelism
22 The impact of political calculus on the reform of institutions and growth: old and new examples
23 Italian firms
24 The banking system and savings allocation in Italy
PART V Memories
25 Cinema and public memory
26 The Risorgimento in contemporary Italy: history, politics and memory during the national jubilees (1911–1961–2011)
27 The ‘spaces’ of anti-Fascism in Italy today
28 Italy’s colonial past
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